Where were you in 2001?
Now, maybe that’s not entirely fair. She was, after all, the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1996 to 2002. But let this serve as an illustration of how idiotic it is to compare Palin’s level of experience with Obama’s. Palin served as “executive” for a population of less than 6,000 people, little even by small-town standards. Obama’s state senate constituency, by contrast, was made up of at least 45,000 people–and those are just the ones who voted for him.
Let’s look at where they each were in January 2007. Palin was the newly elected governer of a state inhabited by 683,000 souls. Obama had already logged two years in the U.S. senate representing a state of about 12.8 million. Okay, since each state has two senators, let’s call that a constituency of 6.4 million. It’s still nearly ten times larger than the entire state of Alaska. Ten times larger!
The internet didn’t know who Sarah Palin was in 2001. And except for those 5,469 parka-clad Wasilla residents, neither did the nation. Thankfully, the country is finally starting to see through the McCain campaign’s attempts to turn Palin’s molehill of a resume into a mountain of experience.
Be sure to tune in to the VP debate Thursday night. Watching Palin squirm while trying to defend her inch-deep experience will be uncomfortable but definitely worth it.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
i was in college, doing collegiate things.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Haha…this post made me laugh. Obama had a whopping TWO YEARS in the Senate, and you’re crowing about that?!?
Maybe you skipped civics class, but senators aren’t in charge of anything; governors are. Obama has never run anything in his life until now, while Palin STILL has more executive experience than he and Biden combined. Seriously, I don’t think being a “community organizer” is enough to be President.
But getting back to Biden, if you want to continue to pooh-pooh Alaska’s population, I hope you’re honest enough to do the same with Biden who is from teeny-tiny Delaware. (But you’re not intellectually honest…or are you?)
Oh yeah, and this line was the kicker for me:
“…Palin’s molehill of a resume…”
Bahahaha…just so you know, she and Obama have both spent the SAME AMOUNT OF TIME in elective office–12 years.
But you knew all about Obama’s “molehill”, huh?
September 24th, 2009 at 8:47 pm